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Old 06-22-2018, 02:30 PM   #831
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So is it a cycle that happens to approximate the moon (similar to Lunacy as written) or does the moon control it (causing havoc when they try to land on the moon).
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Old 06-22-2018, 03:26 PM   #832
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I imagine some inventor sets up a camera to get the first true photograph of the moon, and ends up incredibly frustrated when month after month, all they get is a knocked-over camera and pictures of rabbits!
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Old 06-22-2018, 03:28 PM   #833
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The world is more-or-less exactly like Homeline, minus parachronics, except humans have an insane array of skin colors and hair colors and patterns, none of which seem to follow the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Also everyone seems to have names like Twinkle Dewdrop.
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Old 06-22-2018, 05:19 PM   #834
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The names would be by far the weirdest aspect to me. So many real world names are based on profession, relations, and location that such prevalent fanciful surnames would give me pause.
Random patterns are common in other animals if not so much in humans.
Cloned tortoise shell cats, for example will not have identical coats.

Random colors aren't unheard of if you consider eye colors or put higher importance in orange vs. red or auburn hair.

Still it would be fun to imagine a local not caring or even noticing "basic" racial differences in cross timers.

Though one extra weirdness would be if some common color or feature of people in our world is unheard of in theirs. "Chimps have brown hair, not people. What a strange dye. Are you a furry?"
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Old 06-22-2018, 07:48 PM   #835
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The Lepus Skerry

The Lepus Skerry is a series of thirteen known interconnected timelines that feature giant rabbits of one form or another. Lepus-1 is a Q5 timeline, but conveyors and jumpers are only capable of traveling the Lepus Skerry sequentially from Lepus-1 and are only capable of leaving the Lepus Skerry through Lepus-1. Scientific explanation of the phenomena seems to be impossible, at least according to current paratronic theory, though several researchers have gone insane trying to solve the issue mathematically or have developed the ability to transform into giant rabbits when they attempted to solve the issue experimentally and their experiments went sideways.

Infinity allows observational research of the Lepus Skerry, but they have banned any research on the Lepus Skerry in Homeline since an accident five years ago resulted in the entire paratronics department of Case Western Reserve University (CASE) in Cleveland, Ohio being transformed into psychic shapeshifting rabbits. Infinity slapped a gag order on everyone involved because they did not want the general public to panic and for governments to shut down private paratronics research. As far as the investigators from Infinity have figured, the faculty, staff, and students all spontaneously developed Animal Control Talent 4 (Psionic) and the Giant Rabbit Form ability: Alternate Form (Giant Rabbit; Absorptive Change, Light, +10%; Active Change, +20%; Non-Reciprocal Damage, +50%; Psionic, Animal Control, -10%; Reciprocal Rest, +30%) [30] when an experiment attempting to directly access Lepus-13 went sideways.

Lepus-13 is probably the strangest of the known timelines of the Lepus Skerry. While the history of the world seems to be similar to that of Homeline up to 1000 AD, something happened in 1000 AD that changed history, as every human being on Earth acquired Animal Control Talent 4 (Psionic) and the Giant Rabbit Form ability: Alternate Form (Giant Rabbit; Absorptive Change, Light, +10%; Active Change, +20%; Non-Reciprocal Damage, +50%; Psionic, Animal Control, -10%; Reciprocal Rest, +30%) [30]. With the ability to communicated with and become animals, humanity became a better steward of the nature world.

One thousand years later, in the year 2000, the population is only 2 billion, but the world possesses by a mature TL 10 civilization with an extensive space program and clean fusion power. The dominant powers of Lepus-13 are the Algonquian Federation of North America, the Incan Commonwealth of South America, and the Twa Empire of Central Africa. Infinity has recently hired the victims of the CASE experiment to infiltrate Lepus-13 in order to extract technological data from Lepus-13.
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Old 06-22-2018, 08:25 PM   #836
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The Lepus Skerry

The Lepus Skerry is a series of thirteen known interconnected timelines that feature giant rabbits of one form or another. Lepus-1 is a Q5 timeline, but conveyors and jumpers are only capable of traveling the Lepus Skerry sequentially from Lepus-1 and are only capable of leaving the Lepus Skerry through Lepus-1. Scientific explanation of the phenomena seems to be impossible, at least according to current paratronic theory, though several researchers have gone insane trying to solve the issue mathematically or have developed the ability to transform into giant rabbits when they attempted to solve the issue experimentally and their experiments went sideways.

Infinity allows observational research of the Lepus Skerry, but they have banned any research on the Lepus Skerry in Homeline since an accident five years ago resulted in the entire paratronics department of Case Western Reserve University (CASE) in Cleveland, Ohio being transformed into psychic shapeshifting rabbits. Infinity slapped a gag order on everyone involved because they did not want the general public to panic and for governments to shut down private paratronics research. As far as the investigators from Infinity have figured, the faculty, staff, and students all spontaneously developed Animal Control Talent 4 (Psionic) and the Giant Rabbit Form ability: Alternate Form (Giant Rabbit; Absorptive Change, Light, +10%; Active Change, +20%; Non-Reciprocal Damage, +50%; Psionic, Animal Control, -10%; Reciprocal Rest, +30%) [30] when an experiment attempting to directly access Lepus-13 went sideways.

Lepus-13 is probably the strangest of the known timelines of the Lepus Skerry. While the history of the world seems to be similar to that of Homeline up to 1000 AD, something happened in 1000 AD that changed history, as every human being on Earth acquired Animal Control Talent 4 (Psionic) and the Giant Rabbit Form ability: Alternate Form (Giant Rabbit; Absorptive Change, Light, +10%; Active Change, +20%; Non-Reciprocal Damage, +50%; Psionic, Animal Control, -10%; Reciprocal Rest, +30%) [30]. With the ability to communicated with and become animals, humanity became a better steward of the nature world.

One thousand years later, in the year 2000, the population is only 2 billion, but the world possesses by a mature TL 10 civilization with an extensive space program and clean fusion power. The dominant powers of Lepus-13 are the Algonquian Federation of North America, the Incan Commonwealth of South America, and the Twa Empire of Central Africa. Infinity has recently hired the victims of the CASE experiment to infiltrate Lepus-13 in order to extract technological data from Lepus-13.
OK, yes, that's extremely weird since all of the identifiable variables would slow down technological advancement.
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Old 06-23-2018, 01:09 AM   #837
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The world is more-or-less exactly like Homeline, minus parachronics, except humans have an insane array of skin colors and hair colors and patterns, none of which seem to follow the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Also everyone seems to have names like Twinkle Dewdrop.
Homeline might get nervous when they discover the linked parallel with similarly colored equines in that skerry.
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Old 06-24-2018, 06:59 AM   #838
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Try this weird parallel, the Hollywood version. Basically, this parallel is an over the top cinematic version of reality. All events are overheated and melodramatic. Stereotypes are everywhere. Mind you, since stereotypes tend to change at the border, so do the NPCs. Example: as the easily observable stereotype of Americans in Britain is stupidity, (really when was the last time you saw an average American depicted as intelligent on a British TV show) Americans lose IQ in Britain. As Americans are seen as EVIL in many Middle Eastern nations, Americans visiting those nations often gain multiple nasty mental disadvantages.

People are vaguely aware of these changes and it effects were people vacation. Americans, aware that they become stupid and creepy in Europe, simply don't go. Where the Brits, aware of how positive American stereotypes of them are, love visiting the USA. Many nations spend millions on changing their people's stereotypes in order to get the tourist trade.
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Old 06-24-2018, 10:38 AM   #839
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That would have a major effect on espionage.
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Old 06-24-2018, 04:23 PM   #840
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Pick a small nation with only a little bit of cash, but some media savvy. Instead of making themselves a tourist destination by convincing their people to like foreign citizens, they court wealthy, famous, attractive, and intelligent foreigners and offer them citizenship, with the idea being to brand citizens of the country as the best and brightest.

Then sell citizenship.
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